All about the food we eat at home, pack in our lunch boxes, and try everywhere else…. And feel it's blog worthy!

Not the standard banana muffin, but if eating healthy is a priority, try this out with your own substitutions. This did not have the normal sweetness to it as I reduced the added sugar considerably. I would have added dates if I had them on hand.

My recipe.

1C Oats

1C Rye Flour

1/2 C All Purpose Flour

1/2 Baking Soda

1t Baking Powder

2t Cinnamon

3T brown sugar

3/4C raisins

1/4C chopped nuts

3 overripe bananas

Milk as necessary

3t Ghee/butter

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl. Mash bananas in another bowl and add the melted ghee to it. Add the dry ingredients slowly and fold into the banana mixture. If it is too thick, add some milk. Fold in the rest of the dry ingredients. Bake in mini muffin tin at 375F for approx 20 mins.

These idlis were yummy. And very easy to make. So without much ado, here’s the recipe

Ingredients

1 cup whole Urad Dal

1 cup idli rice

3 cups sprouted finger millet flour (ragi)

Method

Wash and soak urad Dal and rice separately. Soak for 6-8 hrs. Grind urad Dal until light and fluffy with enough water. Remove from the mixer and grind the rice (should be just a tad coarse and not pasty) with adequate water. Mix the ground urad Dal and rice well. Add the Ragi flour slowly and ajust consistency by adding water to a medium thick batter. Add salt and cover and keep in a warm place to ferment (12-15hrs). Steam in an idli steamer and enjoy!

Well, title says ‘Regular’ only because South Indian lunch/dinner is mostly rice, vegetables and a gravy/stew/soup with lentils. But the non-regular part of the plate was the way in which my husband served himself…looks modern and pulled together like an entree served at an upscale restaurant!

Its difficult to imagine pizza tasting good on anything other than the standard crust. We thought so too…. But we were wrong…after trying gluten free pizza flour mix from our grocery store…what????
A few things that I liked about the gluten free flour…no kneading …. I have made regular dough without a mixer during the 3 years that we were expats…let me just say that I have the biceps to prove it…just my right hand!

Another plus …resting the dough for just 20 minutes… who wants to wait an hour when everyone is hungry….

…And no one needed to be able to toss, roll out, do theatrics or go to Italy (to learn all that) to get the dough perfectly thin…all I did was pat it out with wet hands to a thin crust( remember…no gluten, so no spring action) …. can’t beat that!

After all these pros, if the pizza tasted edible we would have called it a day and gone to bed happy…but it was a shocker when it turned out so amazingly good that I was ruing the biceps (on my right hand) I had developed when we could have been eating this the whole time! Well, the sacrifices you make before discovering gluten free pizza flour sitting on your grocery store shelf!!! And think of buying it! And buying it!!!